Who we are The Conference of European Churches (CEC) is a fellowship of some 115 Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican, and Old Catholic Churches from all countries of Europe, plus 40 National Council of Churches and Reformation Organisations in Partnership. CEC was founded in 1959 and has offices in Brussels and Strasbourg. and the making of In its commitment to Europe as a whole the Conference seeks to help the European churches to renew their spiritual life, to strengthen their common witness and service and to promote the unity of the Church Ecclesial Identities and peace in the world. A seminar organized by the Conference of CEC works on a number of issues of common concern for European European Churches churches. These include dialogue with the European political institutions, ecclesiology and theological dialogue, peacebuilding and 21 - 22 November 2017 reconciliation, human rights, economic and ecological justice, at the Ecumenical Center in Brussels employment and social issues, bioethics, education for democratic citizenship, migration and asylum issues, and EU policy and legislation. Contact Us Phone: +32 2 234 68 32 Web: www.ceceurope.org Conference of European Churches Rue Joseph II 174 1000 Bruxelles Table of Contents Overview of the programme .................................................................................................. 1-2 Notes: Fr Heikki Huttunen, General Secretary of CEC .................................................................. 3 Welcome and Opening Prayer ........................................................................................................................... Prof. Martin Friedrich, Study Secretary of CPCE .............................................................. 4 A common Protestant understanding of the Church. The CPCE study "The Church of Jesus Christ" and its roots in the ecclesiological thinking of Luther, Zwingli and Calvin ....................... Rt Rev. Dr Martin Lind, Church of Sweden, Lutheran Church in Great Britain...5 The Hidden and the Visible God – A Lutheran Ecclesiology .................................................................. Rev Dr Valentin Wendebourg, Theological Advisor, EKD office in Brussels ..... 6 Reformation and Ecclesial Plurality in Germany today .......................................................................... Prof. Anne-Marie Mayer, Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven ................ 7 From divisive identity markers to ecumenical milestones: A Catholic Perspective ................... Rev Dr Jack McDonald, Central Committee President, Belg. Anglican Church .. 8 Richard Hooker: Anglicanism and (non-)Ecclesiology ............................................................................ Dr Arto Hämäläinen, Chairman of WMC/PWF and Senior Advisor of PEF ...... 9 Reformation – Fostering or Impeding World Missions? ......................................................................... Ms. Harkovich Natalia, Head of Historical Department, Ecumena, Belarus .... 10 The “provoked” Reformation: the process inside the Orthodox Church in the Polish- Lithuanian State (end of 16th – beginning of 17th century) ................................................................ Dr Tamara Grdzelidze, Ambassador of Georgia to the Holy See .......................... 11 How we interpret one another: Orthodox and reformed in Ecumenical Dialogue .................... Rev. Dr Anne-Cathy Graber, Mennonite World Conference ................................... 12 Being a Peace Church: from 16th Century Anabaptist Identity to a 21st Century Mennonite Identity - Ecumenical Dialogue as a Necessity for Ecclesial Identity................................................ Rev. Dr Anne-Cathy Graber Programme Tuesday 21 November 2017 14:00 Welcome by Fr Heikki Huttunen, General Secretary of CEC Opening Prayer 14:30-16:30 Session 1 Prof. Martin Friedrich, Study Secretary, Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE) A common Protestant understanding of the Church. The CPCE study "The Church of Jesus Christ" and its roots in the ecclesiological thinking of Luther, Zwingli and Wednesday 22 November 2017 Calvin 17:00 – 18:00 Session 6 Rt Rev. Dr Martin Lind, Church of Sweden, The Lutheran Church in Great Britain The Hidden and the Visible God – A Lutheran Ecclesiology Being a Peace Church: from 16th Century Anabaptist Identity to a 21st Century Mennonite Identity - 16:30-17:00 Coffee Break Ecumenical Dialogue as a Necessity for Ecclesial Identity 17:00-18:00 Session 2 Rev Dr Valentin Wendebourg, Theological Advisor, EKD office in Brussels Reformation and Ecclesial Plurality in Germany today Anne-Cathy Graber is a member of the Chemin Neuf community (a Roman Catholic community with an ecumenical vocation/orientation) and ordained as an itinerant 18:00 Closing Prayer Mennonite pastor. She is a member of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches and serves on the committee of the Global Christian Forum as a representative of the Mennonite World Conference. She is also a member of the “Groupe des Dombes” and affiliated with the Paris Mennonite Centre. She holds a Doctorate in Theology (Theology and Religious Studies) from the Protestant Faculty of Theology of the University of Strasbourg, and is the author of numerous articles, essays and the book: “Marie. Une lecture comparée de ‘Redemptoris Mater’ (Jean-Paul II) et du ‘Commentaire du Magnificat’ (Luther) à la lumière des dialogues œcuméniques”, Paris, Cerf, 2017. 12 1 Wednesday 22 November 2017 9:15-9:30 Prayer Dr Tamara Grdzelidze 9:30-10:30 Session 3 Prof Anne-Marie Mayer, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven From divisive identity markers to ecumenical milestones: A Catholic Perspective 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-13:00 Session 4 Rev Dr Jack McDonald, President of the Central Committee of the Anglican Church in Belgium Richard Hooker: Anglicanism and (Non-)Ecclesiology Dr Arto Hämäläinen, Chairman of the World Missions Commission/Pentecostal Wednesday 22 November 2017 World Fellowship (WMC/PWF), Senior Advisor/Pentecostal European 14:00 – 16:00 Session 5 Fellowship (PEF) Reformation – Fostering or Impeding World Missions? How we interpret one another: Orthodox and reformed 13:00-14:00 Lunch in Ecumenical Dialogue 14:00-16:00 Session 5 Ms. Harkovich Natallia, Head of Historical Department, Cultural and Educational Tamara Grdzelidze is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Centre Ecumena, Belarus Holy and Sovereign Order of Malta. She holds a D. Phil (University of Oxford), a Ph.D. The “provoked” Reformation: the process inside the Orthodox Church in the Polish- (Tbilisi State University), and a Doctorate honoris causa (University of Bern). Lithuanian State (end of 16th – beginning of 17th century) Until becoming Ambassador to the Holy See (September 2014) and the Sovereign Order of Malta (December 2014) she worked as an Orthodox theologian at the World Council of Dr Tamara Grdzelidze, Ambassador of Georgia to the Holy See Churches, 2001 – 2013 (Geneva, Switzerland) at the Secretariat of Faith and Order How we interpret one another: Orthodox and reformed in Ecumenical Dialogue Commission for the promotion of Christian unity. In Georgia she did research in Georgian Hagiography at Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature and taught Georgian 16:30-17:00 Coffee break language and literature at school. 17:00-18:00 Session 6 She published widely on Georgian hagiography and church history, inter-confessional Rev Dr Anne-Cathy Graber, Mennonite World Conference dialogue, ecclesiology, hermeneutics, orthodoxy and the contemporary world. As an Being a Peace Church: from 16th Century Anabaptist Identity to a 21st Orthodox theologian she has taught and written on Christian unity, Climate Change, Century Mennonite Identity - Ecumenical Dialogue as a Necessity for Ecclesial Gender, War, Human Rights. She runs a blog in the Georgian language on current matters Identity of the Holy See. 18:00-18:30 Conclusions and Closing Prayer 2 11 Ms. Natallia Harkovich Very Rev. Protopresbyter Heikki Huttunen Wednesday 22 November 2017 Tuesday 21 November 2017 14:00 – 16:00 Session 5 14:00 – 14:30 The “provoked” Reformation: the process inside the Welcome and opening prayer Orthodox Church in the Polish-Lithuanian State (end of 16th – beginning of 17th century) Fr Heikki Theodoros Huttunen took up his post as Secretary General of the Conference of European Churches in January 2016. He is a member of the Orthodox Church of Finland. Natallia Harkovich is Director of the Cultural and Educational Centre Ecumena in Minsk, From 2006-2015 he was Secretary General of the Finnish Ecumenical Council. At the same Belarus. She was born in Pinsk, Belarus, in 1984. She studied at the European Humanity time, he was a member of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) University at Minsk, Theology Faculty, then at the Belarusian State University, Institute of from 2006-2013 and represented his church at the last four WCC General Assemblies. Theology (graduated from it at 2007). At the same University she successfully completed His other ecumenical experiences include his time as the director of the youth department a Master's on religion science, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture. Her next of the WCC from 1985-1989, as well as head of Syndesmos, the youth organization of the academic period included PhD courses at the National Institute of Higher Education of Orthodox Church. Belarusian State University, the Department of